Bibliography

This selected bibliography has been compiled with the goal of furnishing an overview of the various types of resources available for research on the history of Pennsylvania's postwar suburban development. Download this select bibliography (PDF). In this version, resources that are available from the State Library of Pennsylvania are denoted by a keystone symbol.

McAlister, Virginia and Lee McAlister. A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

Miller, Randall M. and William Pencak, eds. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2002.

Pennsylvania State Data Center. "The Commonwealth's Official Source for Demographic and Economic Data – Official Liaison to the U.S. Census Bureau." Available online

Primary Sources (Specific to Pennsylvania)

Education

Another Community Studies its Schools: Five School Districts of Dauphin County Consider Plans for the Improvement of their Educational Facilities. Harrisburg, PA: The Dauphin County Branch of the Pennsylvania Economy League, Inc., 1949.

Pennsylvania Bureau of Vocational, Technical and Continuing Education. Achievement Report on Area Vocational-Technical School Developments: 1963 to June 30, 1968. Harrisburg: The Department, 1968.

Lifestyle

Bodek, Ralph. How and Why People Buy Houses: A Study of Subconscious Home Buying Motives. Philadelphia: Municipal Publications, 1958.

Race

Bauman, John, ed. From Tenements to Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America. College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Note

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